Word: tungsten
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...nympholept as the traffic will bear and, since all this transpires in Buenos Aires, the traffic is reasonably lively. Mr. Ford, meanwhile, develops a fierce protective attachment for his boss, Mr. Macready. He runs his dressy gambling hell for him, supersedes him in his fascist-minded control of a tungsten cartel, and hates Macready's wife-or so he thinks-like poison, for causing the great man to suffer. In the long run, she explains that she has misbehaved with half the men in South America not for the fun of it but purely to make Ford jealous...
...fair amount of pulpy entertainment, nicely paced and aptly delivered for the first hour or so, more & more tortuously protracted from there on out. Glenn Ford has a good deal of style as the young scoundrel, though he looks a couple of decades too callow to browbeat tungsten tycoons. George Macready, looking rather like an icicle outfitted by Wetzel, does nicely by his questionable assignment-which is to make a Nazi glamorous. But all in all it is Rita Hayworth's picture, and people who don't bother too much about the last several reels will enjoy sharing...
Ordinary lamps emit light from a considerable area, usually a glowing coil of tungsten wire. This makes shadows fuzzy, causes all sorts of trouble in optical instruments. Scientists have long yearned for a convenient, cool "point source" of light. Now, according to Western Union, they...
...Union calls its lamp a "concentrated arc." Inside a small glass bulb filled with argon gas are two electrodes. On one is a tiny speck of zirconium oxide. When the current flows, this turns to molten zirconium metal, glows ten times as brightly for its area as the brightest tungsten filament...
...such a way that "until 1939, Canadian consumers were deprived of low-priced radio sets of a type which had been available in the U.S. for a considerable period." ¶When the U.S. General Electric Co. and the German Krupp interests made an agreement on the sale of cemented tungsten carbide (for machine tools), Canadian importers could buy it only from G.E., which raised the price from $50 a pound to $453. After the U.S. Government indicted G.E. in 1940 (antitrust law violation), the price skidded to $32 a pound...